Wildcat Strike: Teachers Strike for Student Rights

Teachers Strike for Students Rights!
from Santee Education Complex High School will stage a one (1) hour morning
strike during the normal school day to fight against teacher layoffs that will
disproportionately affect socio-economically disadvantaged students
and thus violating their civil rights. Santee teachers have received an extremely
HIGH amount of termination notices compared to schools with on the Westside
or the Valley. Fifty-six (56) layoff notices have gone out at Santee. This
would completely decimate the entire math and science departments!
Teachers
will NOT sign in during the first hour of work and instead will rally outside
in front of the school with parents, students and community members. This
will launch a series of one hour strikes throughout the city that may
accumulate in a ONE day general citywide teachers strike!
Teachers
at Santee will also call on the Mayor of Los Angeles to stand up for his
partnership schools and save teachers and small class sizes. Santee Education Complex
is part of Los Angeles Mayor’s Partnership for LA Schools.
Friday, March 27th, 2009. 7:30am
The central objective/demand will be: To publicly expose that current LAUSD termination notices will disproportionally

affect schools that have low socio-economic levels and thus violating the civil

rights of these students.
1) To call on the Los Angeles Unified School District to imminently halt
teacher layoff and increased class sizes that will have negative impact on the
students of Los Angeles
2) Call on the Mayor of Los Angeles to stand up and fund his Partnership
Schools much like San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently did by using city
funds to support schools.
Contacts:
Jose Lara, Chapter Chair, Santee UTLA
josexlara@yahoo.com